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Senior Data Engineer (Informatica)
Posted 4 days ago by eTeam Workforce Limited
The role of Senior Data Engineer (Informatica) involves supporting critical data warehouse and ETL migration initiatives...
- Rate £537 per day
- Category Inside
- Work type Remote
- Location London (Remote - infrequent ask to attend a meeting in Newcastle or Leeds), UK
Senior Data Engineer (Informatica)
Posted 5 days ago by Sanderson Government and Defence
The Senior Data Engineer (Informatica) role involves leading the migration of legacy SAS-based ETL processes to Informat...
- Rate £530 per day
- Category Inside
- Work type Remote
- Location London; City of London; East London; Central London; South East London; West London; Canary Wharf; South West London; North London; Greenwich; Stratford
Senior Data Engineer (Informatica)
Posted 5 days ago by Jobserve
The role of Senior Data Engineer (Informatica) involves supporting critical data warehouse and ETL migration initiatives...
- Rate £537 per day
- Category Inside
- Work type Remote
- Location London (Remote - infrequent ask to attend a meeting in Newcastle or Leeds)
Lead insights analyst/Data Analyst
Posted 7 days ago by Scot Lewis Associates Ltd
The Lead Insights Analyst role involves leveraging strong analytics and risk analytics experience to drive insights in a...
- Rate £830 per day
- Category Inside
- Work type Hybrid
- Location Birmingham or Leeds or Sheffield or Chester , UK
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About Our Inside IR35 SAS Contract Roles
What does a sas contractor do?
The SAS contractor role centres on the ability to develop, maintain, and optimise analytical programmes and data management workflows using the SAS statistical software platform, which remains the dominant analytical platform across the pharmaceutical, financial services, healthcare, and insurance sectors in the UK. SAS's strength in regulated industry analytics, clinical trial data management and statistical programming for CDISC submission, credit risk modelling, and insurance actuarial analysis has created a stable and specialist contracting market driven by the large installed base of SAS in these industries. Contract engagements involve developing SAS programs for data manipulation, statistical analysis, reporting, and automated processing, migrating legacy SAS code to newer SAS versions or to alternative platforms, and providing specialist SAS programming expertise for specific analytical projects.
SAS contractors are expected to have strong proficiency in Base SAS programming, including DATA step processing, PROC SQL, macro programming, and SAS formats and informats. For pharmaceutical statistical programming roles, familiarity with SAS for clinical trials, including the CDISC SDTM and ADaM standards for clinical data formatting, and experience producing TLFs (tables, listings, and figures) for regulatory submission packages, is expected. For financial services and credit risk roles, experience using SAS Enterprise Guide or SAS Studio for credit scoring model development, SAS Risk Management frameworks, or the SAS Visual Analytics platform for BI and reporting is the relevant technical requirement. For regulatory submissions, knowledge of PROC REPORT, Output Delivery System, and the specific SAS procedures used in clinical and actuarial analysis is expected alongside the data management and statistical programming competencies.
What is the market like for sas contractors?
SAS contracting is a specialist and stable market defined by the characteristics of the industries where SAS maintains its strongest foothold. Pharmaceutical statistical programming for clinical trial submissions to FDA, EMA, and MHRA is the highest-value and most consistently active segment of the SAS contractor market, as the regulatory requirement to submit clinical data in SAS-formatted CDISC datasets creates structural demand for SAS programmers with CDISC expertise. Financial services credit risk analytics and insurance actuarial analysis are the other primary sources of SAS contract demand. The market is not growing in the way that Python and R-based analytics contracting is, but the regulatory requirements and large installed base in pharmaceutical and financial services create resilient ongoing demand. Rates for experienced pharmaceutical SAS programmers with CDISC submission experience are at the premium end of the analytical programming contractor market.
What does Inside IR35 mean?
IR35 is UK tax legislation that determines whether a contractor is genuinely self-employed or working in a manner that resembles employment. When a contract is classified as inside IR35, income tax and National Insurance are deducted at source, typically via an umbrella company or agency PAYE. Headline day rates on inside IR35 engagements are generally higher than equivalent outside IR35 roles to account for the tax and employment cost structure.
Inside IR35 determinations are made where the working arrangements are considered to resemble employment, based on factors including the level of client control, the absence of a genuine right of substitution, and the presence of mutuality of obligation. Since April 2021, the end client is responsible for making this determination for medium and large private sector organisations. Many employers in financial services, government, and professional services assess the majority of their contractor engagements as inside IR35.
On QualityContracts.co.uk, approximately 49% of roles with a stated IR35 status are classified as inside IR35, making it the most common arrangement across the contract market. The proportion varies by sector and role type. Each listing on this page displays its IR35 status where provided by the hiring organisation.
What sas roles are usually Inside IR35?
Inside IR35 SAS work is concentrated in organisations with established SAS environments that need ongoing development and support. Banks, insurers, and government statistical bodies running SAS for credit risk modelling, regulatory reporting, and statistical analysis hire SAS contractors to maintain and extend existing programmes. The SAS contractor market has contracted as organisations migrate to open-source alternatives, but demand persists in regulated environments where SAS is entrenched.
How much do sas contractors usually earn when working Inside IR35?
Contract rates for sas roles typically range from £450 to £800 per day, depending on the scope of the role, required expertise, and the delivery expectations of the engagement. Inside IR35 rates are typically 15% to 30% higher than equivalent outside IR35 roles to account for tax and national insurance deducted at source by the fee-payer.
How many Inside IR35 sas vacancies are there on Quality Contracts?
Over the past twelve months, we have tracked over 100 sas contract roles across the site. Around one third of the roles currently listed on the site fall Inside IR35. Data reviewed up to June 2026.